By Bill Picture Published: December, 2012 Adobe Systems, the San Jose-based software giant, has received top honors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Pacific Southwest region for its aggressive in-office waste management program, which diverts 100 percent of the solid waste generated at its nearly million-square-foot headquarters from local landfills. "Office waste is a […]
BY BILL PICTURE Published: June, 2018 The California Energy Commission (CEC) has updated energy efficiency building standards to require that all newly constructed homes be outfitted with solar systems beginning in 2020. The annual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the new requirement is expected to be the equivalent to taking 115,000 gas-burning […]
Published: April, 2003 Steve Clemens is the manager for the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market in San Francisco, which is operated by the Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA). On the brink of the Ferry Building’s grand opening, Bay Crossings spoke with him about his vision for the new location of the Farmer’s Market. […]
